Recent news on Rezulin

Years Ago, Agency Was Warned of a Drug’s Risks  -  25 May 2007
Wilmington Morning Star,At the time, the company promoted Avandia as a safer alternative to a similar diabetes drug, Rezulin, which was withdrawn from the market in 2000 because it

Are Any Drugs Safe? - FDA Issues Warning on Avandia  -  May 21, 2007
InjuryBoard.com,Bextra, Baycol, Vioxx, Rezulin and other drugs have been withdrawn, and some drugs, such as Celebrex now contain the strongest possible warning of hazards,

Editorial: FDA needs more police power  -  May 20, 2007
Red Bluff Daily News,Rezulin, a diabetes drug found to cause liver failure, was withdrawn from the market after it had caused more than 500 deaths. To get a drug on the market

Senate passes sweeping drug-safety bill  -  May 10, 2007
Los Angeles Times,Rezulin, which was found to cause liver failure, was pulled from the US market after being cited in more than 500 deaths. Vioxx was found to increase the

Glaxo's Drug Disaster?  -  May 21, 2007
Forbes,The FDA may have felt pressure to approve Avandia two years later because safety problems were starting to show up with Rezulin. The Pfizer drug was pulled

Senate backs expanding drug safety  -  May 10, 2007
Arizona Republic,...withdrawals of the painkiller Vioxx and the diabetes drug Rezulin, as well as the FDA's tardy warning about the suicide risks of antidepressants.

Pope has warning for lawmakers  -  May 10, 2007
Daily Press,The measure was drafted in response to safety lapses, such as the belated withdrawals of the pain-killer Vioxx and the diabetes drug Rezulin, as well as the

Biotechs give thumbs-up to FDA  -  May 23, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune,In recent years the painkiller Vioxx and the diabetes drug Rezulin, among other drugs, have been pulled from the market because they were implicated in

Concerns about diabetes drug Avandia aren't new  -  May 23, 2007
Los Angeles Times,Nonetheless, they were seen as a safer alternative to Rezulin, a similar medication withdrawn after it was linked to liver failure.

Study: Diabetes drug increases heart risk  -  May 22, 2007
Allentown Morning Call,It is part of a class of drugs that includes Rezulin, which was withdrawn from the market in 2000 after it was found to cause liver failure in some patients

Diabetes drug called potential death risk  -  May 22, 2007
9NEWS.com,Another member of the class, Rezulin, was pulled off the market in 2000 because of liver toxicity. Nevertheless, if the Nissen analysis is shown to reveal

Diabetes drug raises heart risks  -  May 22, 2007
ArabianBusiness.com,The first drug in the class, Rezulin, was pulled from the market in March 2000 after about 63 people who took it died from acute liver failure.

Diabetes pill linked to heart attacks  -  May 22, 2007
Portsmouth Herald News,...headed for FDA approval until safety issues emerged. A fourth drug in the same class, Rezulin, was withdrawn in 2000 after it was linked to liver problems.

Diabetes medicine under fire  -  May 21, 2007
Kansas City Star,It is part of a class of drugs that includes Rezulin, which was taken off the market in 2000 after it was found to cause liver failure in some patients and

Diabetes Pill Tied to Heart Risks  -  May 21, 2007
Forbes,A fourth drug in the same class, Rezulin, was withdrawn in 2000 after it was linked to liver problems. (This version CORRECTS the 2006 sales figure for

Analysis Associates Avandia With Greater Risk of Heart Attack  -  May 21, 2007
Diabetes Health (press release),In 2000, another glitazone, Rezulin (troglitazone), was removed from the market due to liver toxicity. Earlier this year, the Cochrane Library published a

Heart Attack Risk Seen in Drug for Diabetes  -  May 22, 2007
Times Daily (subscription),Both Avandia and Actos, the Takeda drug, are members of a class of compounds with a troubled history. One drug in the group, Rezulin , was withdrawn in 2000

Diabetes drug linked to increased risk of heart attack  -  May 21, 2007
7Online.com,Rezulin, an Avandia cousin, was removed from the US market in 2000 due to liver toxicity. Another drug in the class, muraglitazar, was recommended to the

America can't afford much more drug industry charity  -  May 20, 2007
Roanoke Times,Rezulin, Baycol and finally Vioxx were removed from the shelves. Doctors, medical societies and patient advocacy groups were quick to ask what was going on.

Drug Safety Proposals and the Intrusion Of Federal Regulation into ...  -  May 11, 2007
American Enterprise Institute,...behavior as new problems emerged around a handful of new drugs, many launched in the 1990s, including Rezulin, Trovan, Propulsid, and Lotronex.

Senate passes landmark drug-safety bill  -  May 11, 2007
Longview Daily News,...withdrawals of the painkiller Vioxx and the diabetes drug Rezulin, as well as the FDA's tardy warning about the suicide risks of anti-depressants.

Senate acts on drug safety  -  May 10, 2007
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription),...withdrawals of the painkiller Vioxx and the diabetes drug Rezulin, as well as the FDA’s tardy warning about the suicide risks of antidepressants.

Senate approves drug-safety bill boosting FDA role  -  May 10, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer,...withdrawals of the pain reliever Vioxx and the diabetes drug Rezulin, as well as the FDA's tardy warning about the suicide risks of antidepressants.

Senate Approves Landmark Drug Safety Bill  -  May 9, 2007
Tampa Tribune,The Senate bill was drafted in response to highly publicized safety lapses, including the belated withdrawals of painkiller Vioxx and diabetes drug Rezulin,

Bid to allow drug imports advances  -  May 4, 2007
Los Angeles Times,The proposed improvements were developed in response to highly publicized safety lapses, including the belated withdrawal of the diabetes drug Rezulin and

TX-Sen: Senator Watts?  -  May 4, 2007
TPMCafe,You may not know who he is, but Mikal Watts has probably thought about you if you've driven a Ford with Firestone tires, or if you ever took Rezulin for

Astra Likely to Drop AtheroGenics Drug -Analysts  -  Mar 28, 2007
Reuters.uk,That is twice the rate seen for Rezulin, a diabetes drug which was pulled from the market in 2000, he noted. Analysts at Bear Stearns also said they assumed

FDA Faces Doubt Over Ability To Keep Food Safe  -  Apr 23, 2007
WCBS-TV New York,The drug Rezulin caused 28 deaths before it was recalled. One reason is the FDA is not allowed by law to require a drug safety study after a drug is

Oral medications to treat Type 2 diabetes  -  Apr 19, 2007
Chennai Online,Another drug Troglitazone (sold by Warner-Lambert as Rezulin) was recalled by the company due to its tendency to cause liver problems.

Diabetes Drugs Tied to Fractures in Women  -  Apr 17, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),In 2000, Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert agreed to the FDA's request to withdraw its thiazolidinedione, called troglitazone (Rezulin), from the market because of

Americans fed up with drug industry influence, FDA corruption ...  -  Apr 15, 2007
Newstarget.com,The astonishing story of Rezulin, a diabetes drug, is a good example. Repeatedly banned and confiscated herbs and nutritional supplements that compete with

Did Daniel's acne medication kill him?  -  Apr 9, 2007
Waukegan News Sun,Rezulin, a diabetes drug, was pulled in 2000 after it was linked to deadly liver failure. For five months, Daniel had been taking the acne drug Accutane.

Did Daniel's acne medication kill him?  -  Apr 3, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times,Rezulin, a diabetes drug, was pulled in 2000 after it was linked to deadly liver failure. Fed up with such horror stories, Congress is considering a bill

AtheroGenics: Promise And Peril  -  Mar 27, 2007
Forbes,..."The Death of AGI-1067?," Bernstein research pharmaceuticals analyst Gbola Amusa notes that this is a similar elevation to what was seen in Rezulin,

AstraZeneca medicine linked to liver hazard  -  Mar 29, 2007
The News Journal,Amusa estimates a possible fatality rate of one patient in every 5000 taking AGI-1067, based on the new data -- more than Warner-Lambert's Rezulin diabetes

Prevention vs. drugs. The real Conversation on Health  -  Mar 1, 2007
Common Ground.ca,This new drug for the treatment of adult onset (type-2) diabetes arrived on the scene the same week that Avandia’s sister drug, troglitazone, or Rezulin,

Pioglitazone (Actos) Increases Limb Fractures in Women  -  Mar 9, 2007
MedPage Today,A third drug in the class, troglitazone (Rezulin), was removed from the market due to hepatoxicity. As a class the thiazolidinediones can cause edema,

US state votes to end drugmakers' immunity from lawsuits  -  Feb 27, 2007
Pharma Times (subscription),...manufacturer of the diabetes drug Rezulin (troglitazone), were dismissed by a New York Federal Court judge because of the Michigan law.

Corporate Litigators Thomas M. Moore & Ronald Labriola Start New ...  -  Mar 5, 2007
Emediawire (press release),...most significant mass tort proceedings during the past two decades, including those involving silicone breast implants, fen-phen, Rezulin®, and Baycol®.

For Merck, A New Worry Amid Success  -  Feb 28, 2007
Forbes,Seven years ago, Rezulin, a Pfizer diabetes drug, was pulled from the market. In the past several months, studies of Actos and Avandia,

A Better Way to Increase Access to Prescription Drugs  -  Feb 7, 2007
TCS Daily,The diabetes drug Rezulin, for example, is believed to have caused the tragic loss of 63 lives due to liver complications before it was pulled from the

Lawmakers take on drug company immunity  -  Feb 22, 2007
Journal Newspapers,A New York federal court judge dismissed more than 187 claims made by Michigan residents against the makers of Rezulin after the diabetes drug was pulled

Analysis: Critics blast FDA culture  -  Feb 13, 2007
Science Daily (press release)On Tuesday he said a variety of other drugs, including acetaminophen, Rezulin, Lotrinex, and the acne drug Accutane, were inappropriately handled by FDA.

The Role of Litigation in Defining Drug Risks  -  Jan 16, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),According to one expert at the trial, "Twenty of the withdrawals from the Rezulin [troglitazone] group were due to elevated liver function tests,

Exposing the 'Phantom Epidemic' in Silica Litigation  -  Dec 28, 2006
Law.com (subscription),Litig., 328 F.Supp.2d 791 (ND Ohio 2004); In re Rezulin Products Liab. Litig., 361 F.Supp.2d 268 (SDNY 2005); In re Rezulin Products Liab.

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Who Killed the Mass Torts Bonanza?  -  Dec 11, 2006
Law.com (subscription),No other federal judge has written a decision as devastating as Judge Jack's, but in both the Rezulin and Meridia MDLs, for instance, pretrial proceedings

Weitz & Luxenberg Responds to Report of Panelists’ Financial Ties ...  -  Dec 11, 2006
Newswire Today (press release),...silicone breast implants, and the pharmaceutical products DES, Rezulin, and Baycol as well as medical malpractice, and general negligence, among others.

Large Plaintiffs Firm Makes a Recipe for Conflicts  Nov 7, 2006
A few years earlier, the mass tort group was barred from taking Rezulin litigation after Pfizer announced it was on the verge of acquiring Warner-Lambert, the ... -New York Law Journal, Second Circuit Review  Oct 24, 2006
Plaintiffs in Desiano were Michigan residents alleging injuries caused as a result of Rezulin, a drug sold by defendants and used for treating Type-2 diabetes. ... -New York Law Journal, Bottom Line: How To Watch For Dangerous Drugs  Oct 9, 2006
...called glitazones. The first member of the family, Rezulin, was withdrawn in 2000 because it caused liver toxicity. Studies show ... -WNBC, Should state require vaccine? FROM OUR READERS  Sep 23, 2006
This means that Michiganders who were harmed or died after taking Vioxx (pulled from the market in 2004), Rezulin (pulled in 2000) or Bextra (pulled in 2005 ... -Detroit Free Press

Internal Memos on Hormone Replacement Therapy Drugs Prempro and ...  Aug 27, 2006
He was strongly opposed the approval of Rezulin, a Pfizer diabetes drug, in the 1990’s. It is speculated that his objections to Rezulin led to his dismissal ... -Newsinferno.com

Wyeth Told Prempro Studies May Embarrass Drugmaker (Update1)  Aug 26, 2006
After telling Pfizer officials he was worried about the drug's ``potential toxicities,'' he was removed from the FDA team reviewing Rezulin in 1996. ... -Bloomberg

UCLA Law Professor Mark Grady and Veteran Litigator Join Firm as ...  Sep 13, 2006
Inc. in which the plaintiffs claimed that one of the company's diabetes drugs (Rezulin) had caused the deaths of two patients. He ... -Business Wire

Who Killed the Mass Torts Bonanza?  -  Dec 11, 2006
Law.com (subscription),No other federal judge has written a decision as devastating as Judge Jack's, but in both the Rezulin and Meridia MDLs, for instance, pretrial proceedings

Weitz & Luxenberg Responds to Report of Panelists’ Financial Ties ...  -  Dec 11, 2006
Newswire Today (press release),...silicone breast implants, and the pharmaceutical products DES, Rezulin, and Baycol as well as medical malpractice, and general negligence, among others.

Diabetes Drug Shows Promise Against Heart Attacks  -  Nov 14, 2006
U.S. News & World Report,Troglitazone, a drug in the same class as pioglitazone and sold as Rezulin, was withdrawn in March of 2000 after reports of liver failure.

The lawlessness of the FDA, Big Pharma immunity, and crimes ...  -  Nov 19, 2006
Center for Research on Globalization,Read the story of Rezulin, and you'll be shocked to learn the truth about the real agenda that drives this rogue agency. Why would the FDA engage in such an

Internal Memos on Hormone Replacement Therapy Drugs Prempro and ...  Aug 27, 2006
He was strongly opposed the approval of Rezulin, a Pfizer diabetes drug, in the 1990’s. It is speculated that his objections to Rezulin led to his dismissal ... -Newsinferno.com

Fairytales for Grownups  Jul 31, 2006
Four of those withdrawn—Redux, Rezulin, Propulsid and Seldane—were prescribed to nearly twenty million people before the toxic effects began showing up. ... -Common Ground

Ketek drug scandal reveals pattern of scientific fraud at the FDA  Jul 19, 2006
...emails. As now seems routine at the FDA, they were ignored. (See The Rise and Fall of Rezulin to see another such example.). More ... -Newstarget.com

Lifestyle Can Fend off Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Risk  Jul 20, 2006
To do this, they genotyped 3,548 men and women, including 585 people who were assigned to receive Rezulin (troglitazone) as part of the original Diabetes ... -MedPage Today

FDA Failing to Protect Americans, Consumer Groups Charge  Jun 27, 2006
Group director Sidney M. Wolfe, MD, cited 13 instances of drug approvals which either should not have been approved (including Crestor, Rezulin, and others ... -Consumer Affairs

Minimizing Drug Toxicity  Jul 3, 2006
The Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert antidiabetic drug troglitazone (Rezulin) was withdrawn from the market in 2000 after it, too, was found to cause severe ... -Chemical & Engineering News



In Latest Drug Scandal, Ketek’s Safety and FDA Approval Are ...  May 2, 2006
An analysis of the FDA’s review process (generally) with particular emphasis on what occurred in the case of Rezulin demonstrates the degree to which FDA ... - Newsinferno.com

Bernstein Research: Euro Pharma- SAN: Acomplia Positive EU Opinion ...  May 2, 2006
7: The Rezulin (diabetes) experience suggests Sanofi’s damages, if they ever materialized, might amount to 0.1% of its market cap. ... - PharmaLive.com

Following suit: More drugs coming under legal attack  Apr 21, 2006
...documents. In the past few years, suits over Serzone, an antidepressant, and Rezulin, a diabetes drug, have largely fizzled. "These ... - International Herald Tribune

Head of Plaintiffs Superfirm Rules Fractious Tribes  Apr 24, 2006
...of Propulsid. Another partner, Charles A. Mathis Jr., chaired the executive committee for the MDL against Rezulin. The firm also ... - New York Law Journal

Vioxx 'Trial in a Box' Cuts Cost of Filing Suit  Apr 16, 2006
Premade trial packages aren't new -- they were drawn up in suits over the drugs Propulsid and Rezulin, both withdrawn over safety issues, though those packages ... - Wall Street Journal (subscription)





Abortion pill has potential to destroy women's lives  Apr 9, 2006
The diabetes drug Rezulin and the painkiller Duract were both taken off the market after some patients developed liver failure after taking the medications. ... - Patriot-News

Weitz & Luxenberg Wins $4.5 Million on Behalf of Vioxx Victim  Apr 8, 2006
Mr. Gordon was also appointed by the Honorable Lewis Kaplan, Southern District of New York, to the Plaintiffs Steering Committee in the Rezulin Multi-District ... - Emediawire

Among Vioxx lawyers, second banana comes out on top  Apr 8, 2006
County, NY, has amassed nearly $400 million in verdicts for clients in cases involving asbestos, silicone breast implants and the medicines Rezulin and Baycol. ... - San Jose Mercury News

Benedictine College Discovery Day Speaker Focuses on Ethics, Drugs ...  Mar 27, 2006
Dr. David J. Graham, best known for his research leading to the removal of such drugs as Fen-Phen, Rezulin and Vioxx from the market, will be the keynote ... - PR Web

Key players in NJ Vioxx trial  Apr 6, 2006
...attorney in Philadelphia, has won $392 million in jury verdicts during his career in private practice and worked on silicone breast implant, Rezulin and Baycol ... - Cherry Hill Courier Post

Benedictine’s Discovery Day Set for April 5  Mar 20, 2006
The speaker will be Dr. David J. Graham, the FDA official best known for his research leading to the removal of such drugs as Fen-Phen, Rezulin and Vioxx from ... - Benedictine College News

New Advertising Code of Conduct Established in Vioxx Withdrawal ...  Mar 9, 2006
Problems with drugs such as Sankyo and Parke-Davis' Rezulin (troglitazone) and Bayer's Baycol (cerivastatin) for example, have had little effect on the ... - International News Service

estate planning lawyer  Mar 15, 2006
...dully. It I expected told her rooted in bored. Chade to me stone that to help estate planning lawyer rezulin like Habit do. Chivalrys ... - Kokkeleg.dk

Breaking brain tumors' resistance  Mar 23, 2006
In patient trials, pioglitazone will be used instead of troglitazone, the ingredient in Rezulin, which was removed from the market because of safety issues. ... - myDNA.com

Brain cancer: Pioglitazone decreases the cells resistance to ...  Mar 21, 2006
In patient trials, Pioglitazone will be used instead of Troglitazone, which was the ingredient in Rezulin, removed from the market because of safety issues. ... - Xagena.it

DATAMONITOR: New Advertising Code of Conduct Established in ...  Mar 10, 2006
Problems with drugs such as Rezulin (troglitazone) and Baycol (cerivastatin) for example, have had little effect on the blockbuster potential of competitor ... - PharmaLive.com



Public Citizen Petitions FDA to Ban Darvon  Feb 28, 2006
For example, Public Citizen warned consumers about the dangers of Vioxx, ephedra, Bextra, Rezulin, Baycol, Propulsid and many other drugs years before the ... - Consumer Affairs

Tysabri, an MS Drug with Potentially Deadly Side-Effects, Gets FDA ...  Feb 18, 2006
Duract – 11 months; Posicor – 12 months; Redux – 17 months ; Raplon – 19 months; Raxar – 23 months; Baycol – 27 months; Rezulin – 38 months; and ... - Newsinferno.com,

FDA Approval of Insulin System is…Sweet…All Hail “Exuberaâ€?  Feb 1, 2006
But then the FDA started to look like a girlfriend to big drug companies, as one drug after another (Rezulin, Lotronex, Vioxx) had to be recalled. ... - Santa Monica Mirror,

Researchers Break Chain Of Biochemical Events That Brain Cancer ...  Feb 6, 2006
In patient trials, pioglitazone will be used instead of troglitazone, which was the ingredient in Rezulin®, removed from the market because of safety issues. ... - Science Daily

FDA Approval of Insulin System is…Sweet…All Hail “Exuberaâ€?  Feb 1, 2006
But then the FDA started to look like a girlfriend to big drug companies, as one drug after another (Rezulin, Lotronex, Vioxx) had to be recalled. ... - Santa Monica Mirror

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